Grain-elevator



- 'grain,while at the same time preventing waste E NrTnD STATES' ARTHUR J. HENDRIQKS AND PATENT Erice.

ySPIEIGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 530,267, dated December 4, 1894. Application lecl May 18, 1894. Serial No. 511,698. (No model.)

Zo all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, A-RTHUR J. HENDRIcxs and SENECA FoRsYTHE, citizens of the United States, residing at Sterling Valley, inl the county of Cayuga and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Grain Elevator and Bagger', of which the following is a specification.

This invention. relates to grain elevators and baggers; and it has for its object to provide an attachment of this characterthat can be readily attached to and disconnected from an ordinary fanningmill, to provide simple and efficient means for elevating and bagging grain that is discharged from the fanning m1 To this end the main and primary object of the present invention is to provide an elevator and bagging attachment for tanning mills which shall be simple in construction and efficient in operation to secure the objects sought for and with much less labor than is ordinarily attendant upon the bagging of of the grain in bagging.

With these and other objects in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the combined elevator and bagging attachment for tanning mills, showing indotted lines a portion of an ordinary fanning mill to which the attachment is connected. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view ofthe attachment. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the hopper box.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, l designates an open top hopper box that is adapted to be detachably secured to one end of an ordinary tanning mill 2, directly under the discharging apron or spout of said fanning mill, in order to receive the discharging grain therefrom. The said hopper box is not as wide as the portion of the mill to which it is attached, but is sufficiently wide to receive the grain that is discharged from the discharging apron of the mill, and said hopper box is open at the top and is provided with the downwardly and forwardly inclined bottom boards 3, located within opposite ends and the rear side of the hopper box and meeting at'the corners of the box in the down- Wardly inclined bottom grooves 4, the said bottom grooves and the inclined bottom boards 3, forming the same, declining toward the front opening 5, formed in the front side of the hopper box directly in front of the pocket 6, to which pocket the declining bottom boards of the hopper box and the grooves Il, direct the grain, and loosely connected to opposite ends of the hopper box are the at- ,taching hooks '7, that are adapted to detachably engage the securing eyes 8, secured to the frame of the tanning mill to provide for detachably connecting the hopper box to the mill in its proper position under the discharging apron or spout thereof.

The front opening 5, of the hopper box, and the pocket 6, removably receive the lower open end of the inclined elevator box 9. The lower open end of the inclined elevator box 9, is provided with the beveled portion 10, that rests iiat on the bottom of the hopper box in the front pocket 6, thereof, and above the beveled portion 10, the lower end of the said elevator box is open tov allow the grain to run freely thereinto as it enters the pocket 6, so as to be caught up by the buckets 11 of the endless conveyor belt 12, that is mounted to travel at an inclination within the elevator box 9, and passes over the opposite belt rollers 13, journaled within opposite ends of the box, one of said belt rollers being extended at one sideof the elevator box at its upper end and having mounted thereon the belt wheel14, to receive a belt from the fan or other suitable shaft of the tanning mill.

The inclined elevator box 9, is held properly in position with thelower end thereof fitted into the front side of the hopper box by `means of the opposite detachable and adjustable supporting rods 15. The supporting rods 15, are loosely connected at one end at 16, to opposite sides of the elevator box atits upper end and are provided at their opposite ends with the hooks 17, that are adapted to engage any one of a verticalv series .of perforations or openings 18, formed in the opposite supporting plates 19, adapted to be secured to opposite top sides of the frame of the mill in order to provide means, together with the rods 15, for properly supporting the box 19, at the desired pitch or inclination.

The inclined elevator box 9, is provided at the upper end thereof with the depending discharge spout 20, into which the grain is discharged from the buckets of the elevator as the same pass over the upper belt roller 13, and secured on opposite sides of the discharge spout 20, near the lower end thereof are the upwardly disposed bag supporting hooks 21, with which the upper edge of the bag 22, to be filled is adapted to be engaged, such bag when engaged with the hooks 21, having its open end held supported in position directly over the lower discharging end of the discharge spout 21, and the bag is to be left in this position until filled, when it may be detached and another empty bag substituted therefor.

From the above it will be seen that an exceedingly simple and eicient attachment for elevating and bagging grain is provided and one which can be quickly and readily sepa-` rated frorn the tanning mill and quite as quickly and readily set up again, and it will be understood, that changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention. l

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Let- 35 ters Patent, is

In a grain elevator andbagger, the combination with the hopper box having a front side opening, attaching hooks loosely connected to opposite sides of said hopper box and adapted 4o to engage suitable eyes on a separator machine l to detachably and positively position the hopper box under the discharge thereof, an ad- `justable'inclined elevator spout removably fitted at its lower open end in the front side 4 5 opening of said hopper box, and provided at its upper end with a depending discharge spout, an elevator orconveyer within said e1evator box, opposite attaching plates adapted to be xedly secured to opposite top sides of 5o the separating machine and provided with a vertical seriesof perforations or openings,and the hook supporting rods-loosely connected at one end to opposite sides of the elevator box and adj ustably engaging at their other ends 55 the perforations of said supporting plates to provide for holdingthe'elevator box adjusted at the desired inclination or pitch, substantially as set forth. y

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as 6o our own we have hereto aixed our siguatu res in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR '.I.- HENDRICKS. SENECA FORSYTHE.

Witnesses:

EMERSON D. HENDmcKs, MARY A. VAN ALLEN. 

